December 27, 2018 – Astute News

December 27, 2018

Karachi Killer Assassinated in Afghanistan: RAW False Flag or Modi’s Blunder?

The Baloch separatist mastermind behind the recent terrorist attack against the Chinese consulate in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi has been assassinated by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan after he was reportedly sent there by India in an effort to distance New Delhi from its proxy after that audacious incident, raising serious questions about whether the South Asian state’s RAW...

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December 27, 2018

Russian Tu-160 Bombers in Venezuela

Remember what happened when the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier sailed around Europe to reach the eastern Mediterranean? NATO leaders were making fun of the black smoke coming out of the ship’s engine while at the same time shadowing the Kuznetsov as if it was the Death Star from the Star Wars series and as if its final goal was to obliterate...

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December 27, 2018

Why Turkey’s Military Operation East of the Euphrates Could Reshape Region

The phrase “red line” has become commonplace in the rhetoric of world leaders, referencing unacceptable actions or policies. For Turkey, the presence of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) along its border with Syria is a matter of national security, coloured in the most vibrant shade of crimson. While the US views the YPG as the backbone of its coalition partner,...

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December 27, 2018

The Incident in the Strait of Kerch: a Middle-Eastern Perspective

The Strait of Kerch, a location that is not often mentioned in the Middle Eastern media – or social media – has become rather more familiar in that region since Ukrainian ships recently entered Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea. In the Arab world a number of journalists have discussed the incident: they have tended to treat the two...

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December 27, 2018

Is His Asia Pullout Trump’s Hail Mary?

With his shock announcement of a rapid pullout of all US troops from Syria and Afghanistan Donald Trump finally became President. The neocons called him that when he bombed the Al-Shairat airbase in April 2017, a move I said at the time was the biggest geopolitical blunder in years. But with Trump’s enemies closing in on all sides despite the...

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December 27, 2018

Run-Down Britain and How We Can Fix It

Neoliberalism and a decade of austerity have left many parts of Britain looking very shabby. Only a return to the more dirigiste post-war economic model and a major program of public investment will reverse the decline. Unlike ‘Inside the Tent’ members of the ‘punditocracy,’ most of whom show no evidence of ever straying beyond London and the big metropolitan centers,...

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December 27, 2018

Japan Returns to Militarism

On December 11 Japan’s Kyodo News Agency reported that “Japan plans to effectively upgrade its helicopter carriers to enable them to transport and launch fighter jets.” Concurrently the Indian Ministry of Defence noted that in the course of a large exercise being held in India by the US and Indian air forces, “two military pilots from Japan are also taking part in the exercise...

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December 27, 2018

What is Neoliberalism?

Over the last eighteen years as I wrote for many progressive outlets, editors often asked me not to mention the word “neoliberalism,” because I was told readers wouldn’t comprehend the “jargon.” The situation is even worse with literary journals, my main territory, which are determined not to have anything to do with this vocabulary. This has begun to change recently,...

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Daily Archive: December 27, 2018

Karachi Killer Assassinated in Afghanistan: RAW False Flag or Modi’s Blunder?

Russian Tu-160 Bombers in Venezuela

Why Turkey’s Military Operation East of the Euphrates Could Reshape Region

The Incident in the Strait of Kerch: a Middle-Eastern Perspective

Is His Asia Pullout Trump’s Hail Mary?

Run-Down Britain and How We Can Fix It

Japan Returns to Militarism

What is Neoliberalism?